In this article, we’ll talk about taskset command which is a Linux utility and learn how helpful the tasket command is for Linux penetration testing and how we’ll progress tasket utility to scale the greater privilege shell. Note: “The main objective of publishing the series of “Linux for pentester” is to introduce the circumstances and […]
Linux for Pentester: Time Privilege Escalation
In this article, we’ll talk about Time command which is a Linux utility and learn how helpful the time command is for Linux penetration testing and how we’ll progress time to scale the greater privilege shell. Note: “The main objective of publishing the series of “Linux for pentester” is to introduce the circumstances and any […]
Linux for Pentester: xxd Privilege Escalation
In this article, we are going to make our readers familiar with another influential command i.e. “xxd” which assist for converting any hex dump to a binary and vice-versa. So, by knowing this certainty now we will check how wisely we can make it applicable in Privilege Escalation. Note: “The main objective of publishing the […]
Linux for Pentester: CAT Privilege Escalation
Today we are going to talk about CAT command and learn how helpful the cat command is for Linux penetration testing and how we’ll progress cat to scale the greater privilege shell. NOTE: “The main objective of publishing the series of “Linux for pentester” is to introduce the circumstances and any kind of hurdles that […]
Linux for Pentester: Find Privilege Escalation
Today in this article we are back with another most advantageous command from the series of Linux for Pentester i.e. “Find’. The Find command is used to search the list of files and directories, so by knowing this fact, we will now illustrate how we can avail it in Privilege Escalation. NOTE: “The main objective […]
Linux for Pentester: Wget Privilege Escalation
In this article, we are going to describe the entire utility of Wget command and how vital it is in Linux penetration testing. As Wget is used for downloading the files from the server so here we will learn that what else we can do by this command in Privilege Escalation. NOTE: “The main objective […]
Linux for Pentester : ZIP Privilege Escalation
Today We are going to tell you that how can we perform Privilege Escalation with Zip command. As we all know that Zip is an easy platform-based file packaging and compression utilities for Unix-like systems like Linux, Windows, etc. The Zip program is used for compressing and packaging documents. Note: “The main objective of publishing […]
Linux for Pentester: APT Privilege Escalation
In this article, we’ll talk about APT (apt-get) functionality and learn how helpful the apt command is for Linux penetration testing and how we’ll progress apt to scale the greater privilege shell. Note: “The main objective of publishing the series of “Linux for pentester” is to introduce the circumstances and any kind of hurdles that […]
Exploiting Wildcard for Privilege Escalation
In this article, we will cover “Wildcard Injection” an interesting old-school UNIX hacking technique, which is still a successful approach for Post exploitation and even many security-related folks haven’t heard of it. Here you will get surprised after perceiving some UNIX tools like ‘tar’ or ‘chown’ can lead to full system compromise. Table of Content […]
Linux Privilege Escalation by Exploiting Cronjobs
After solving several OSCP Challenges we decided to write the article on the various method used for Linux privilege escalation, that could be helpful for our readers in their penetration testing project. In this article, we will learn “Privilege Escalation by exploiting Cron Jobs” to gain root access of a remote host machine and also […]